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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

THOMAS lV. DOlVRIE, OF PONTIAC, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOCHARLES NV. ST. JOHN, OF SAME PLAGE.

SPEGIFXCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,162, dated December23, 1890.

Application iiled August 5, 1890. Serial No. 361,043, (No model.)

.T0 all whom it may concern: presser-plate The rear end of the plate 9Be it known that I, THOMAS WV. DOWRIE, a is provided with a square shank10, which 5o citizen of the United States, residing at Ponloosely fitsbetween the Ways 3. The inner tiac, in the county of Livingston andState of edge of the plate 9 is preferably beveled, as

5 Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful l-Ieelshown, and the generalcontour of the plate Y Building Machine, of which the following is issuch as when lowered upon a heel in the a specification. course ofconstruction of the same to have 5 5 This invention has relation toaheel-buildcontact with said heel near the edges thereof.

ingmachine foruse by shoe-makers and manu- Above the presser-plate 9there is secure-d to Io facturers. the end of the rod averticalindicating-stand- The objects in view are to provide a maard 11, theupper end of which carries an inchine into which a series of lifts orportions dicating-iinger l2, which moves over-a gradu- 6o of -lifts maybe inserted for the purpose of atedscale of inches 13, displayed uponthe building up aheel, which machine is adapted front face of one of theedges of the guide 3.-

15 to maintain the straps or lifts in snug pos- The coiled spring whichencircles the rod 5 tion while being fastened and to indicate the isdesigned to normally elevate said rod until height of the heel. theindicatiing-nger is opposite the zero- 65 Other objects and advantagesof the invenpoint. tion will hereinafter appear, and the novel Inemploying the apparatus l prefer to 2c features thereof will be 1articularly pointed mount the same upon an ordinary bench 1l, out in theclaims. astride which a Work man may sit, and through Referring to thedrawings, Figure 1 is a perthe bench depends the rod 5, which has its 7cspective of a machine constructed in accordlower end bent to form ahook. A pair of ance with my invention, the same being apbearingears 15is secured to the floor under 2 5 plied to a bench and shown inoperation or the bench, and in the same is pivoted a footin the act ofbuilding up a heel. Fig. 2 is a lever 1G, connected to the bent end ofthe rod perspective in detail of the casting. Fig. 3 is 5 by means of alink 17. The lifts are placed 7 5 a vertical longitudinal section of themachine or piled under the presser-plate 9 upon the removed from thebench. base, and when a sufficient number of lifts 3o Like numeralsindicate like parts in all the have been assembled or thought to be soasfigures of the drawings. sembled by the Workman t-he foot-lever is de-1 designates the anvil or base of my mapressed, so as to bring the plate9 upon the 8o chine, which is preferably of cube shape and lifts and thepointed arm or nger 12 will informed of cast metal. At the rear side ofthe dicate upon the scale the height of the heel.

3 5 anvil there is formedintegral therewith or self the height is toogreat, a lift is removed or cured thereto avertical standard2,bifurcated a portion thereof, and if too small a lift or a from itsupper edge to a point on a level with portion of a lift is added. Vhenthe thick 85 the upper surface of the base 1, and thereby ness has beenaccurately obtained,the presserforming a vertical guide 3. Below thebase plate is held snugly down upon the pile of 4o the standard isthickened and the vertical lifts and two or three nails driven throughguide is continued to the bottom of the standsaid pile, whereby they aresecured together ard in the form of a cylindrical opening 4c. and areready for application to the shoe, 9o

Mounted for reciprocation in the opening 'after which they are shaped.

is a rod 5, and encircling the sameis a coiled Frein the above.description it will be apspring 6, the lower end of which rests upon aparent that heels of a uniform predetermined shoulder 7, located nearthe lower end of said thickness may be rapidly formed and securelyopening. The upper end of the rod is proheld along their edges whileconnected, and 95 vided with a horizontally-disposed U-shaped that heelsmay be built up of scraps or small pieces of leather, thereby effecting'a saving, and at the same time producing a verysecure heel.

Having described my invention, what l claim isl.. The combination, withthe anvil having a rear vertically-slotted standard, oi' the U- shapedpresser-plate extending over the anvil and provided at its rear end witha head or Shank mounted for vertical movement in the slot, a support forthe anvil, a foot-lever, a rod connecting the same with the shank orhead of the presser-plate, and a spring for normally raising the same,substantially as specified.

2. The combination,with the anvil provided with a vertical standard atthe rear side thereof, which standard is provided with a guide, and atone side thereof with a scale,of a rod mounted for movement in theguide, having a spring for normally elevating the Same, a presser-plateextendin g from the rod, and an indicating-linger also extending fromSaid rod, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the bench, of the anvil mounted thereon, thevertical standard having the partially slotted and perforated guide, therod mounted therein for reciprocaltion, a foot-lever located under thebench and THOMAS W. DOWRIE.

Witnesses:

C. W. STERRY, JOHN S. MURPHY.

